On Saturday night the SIMVA 2010 competition continued with the semifinals at the L.B. Scot Sports Auditorium.
Nitro played Super Six in the women’s division and Reptiles played Go For It . These games are between the second and third ranked in their respective divison.
In the first match of the evening Super Six beat Nitro in 3 sets to 1, with the scores 25-17, 22-25, 25-22, 25-22. Super Six started by winning the first set taking an early by the first technical time out 8-5 and maintained the lead to win the set with a difference of 8 points. Nitro turned the tide in the second set by getting a two lead by the the first technical time out with the score 8-6. They maintained this slight lead to finish 25-22. In the third set Nitro and Super Six where exchanging point for point with the score tied at 5. At that time Nitro pulled away to a lead of 14-7. Super Six digged deep down and got back in the game by tying the set at 20 to go on to win the set 25-22.
The fourth set was another thriller where this time Super Six was leading up 18-10. Nitro pulled up close to cut the lead to one point at 22-21 but didn’t have enough to overcome the defeat and lost 22-25. With this win Super Six now leads the series 1-0.
In the second match of the night Go For It took advantage in the first set of the fact that the main setter of Reptiles arrived late to win 26-24. In the second set the setter of Reptiles came into the game at 14-16 to turn the tide and help Reptiles to win 26-24. The third set was a see saw batlle where the lead kept changing between the teams with Reptiles gaining a two point lead at 32-21 to end the set 25-23. In the fourth set Go For It reached the first technical time out with a slight lead with the score 8-7. Reptiles in its turn had the lead of one point by the second technical time out with the score 16-15 and held on to this lead to ultimately win the set 25-22. Reptiles won 3 sets to 1 and leads the semifinals series now 1-0.
On Monday night the semifinals continue with Guess Who playing Go For It in the women matchs and United playing Babylons. Game time is 7:30.